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Augsburg Interim

A 1548 provisional decree imposing a religious settlement on Reformation disputes until a final church council determination.

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The provisional decree of the Diet of Augsburg (1548) imposing a religious settlement of Reformation disputes until a final determination in these matters could be made by a council of the church.

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  1. 1.Jerald C. Brauer and B. A. Gerrish, ed. The Westminster Dictionary of Church History. (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1971). 72Original citation: Brauer, Jerald C., and B. A. Gerrish, eds. The Westminster Dictionary of Church History. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1971, 72.

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